#9530: Improve/fix readline workarounds for Arch Linux and openSUSE, again
broken
on OpenSUSE 11.2 and 11.3
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Reporter: baechler | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: build | Keywords: Arch Linux SuSE
readline
Author: Thomas Bächler, Leif Leonhardy | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:49 leif]:
> Replying to [comment:46 drkirkby]:
> > I'll follow the instructions.
>
> Fine. I just added this (otherwise your bash would have crashed).
>
> > Why do people keep calling this openSuSE? It was in the title, and now
I see it in Leif's comments. According to the openSUSE web page, it is
openSUSE.
>
> Oh, I noticed that. It's because openSUSE started as SuSE Linux,
I see. But it would be sensible to call it by the correct name now. Not
that it should be a major hassle.
> W.r.t. {{{ln -a}}} and {{{-n}}}:
>
> I really wonder if we should make GNU coreutils (and perhaps some more)
prerequisites for Sage (or even ship coreutils as an spkg), since there
seems to be not much progress with POSIX commands.
>
> Or build at least some of our own commands (as part of the scripts
spkg).
It just encourages people to write non-portable code. So they write non-
portable code for Sage, then if they write code for other projects, they
do the same there. At least Sage being cross-platform encourages
developers to think about portability. I'm sure it has contributed to the
education of many.
BTW, I don't see the need to copy the readline files to $SAGE_LOCAL - why
not create links? It saves disk space and CPU cycles.
Dave
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